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Sino-overseas JVs granted oil products wholesale licenses
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-06-11 10:10
China has granted oil products wholesale licenses to Sino-overseas joint
ventures for the first time, according to the Ministry of Commerce (MOC).
The two firms are Sinopec SenMei (Fujian) Petroleum Co., Ltd. and Fujian
Refining & Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
Sinopec holds a 55 percent stake in Sinopec SenMei and ExxonMobil and
Saudi Aramco hold 22.5 percent each.
Fujian Petrochemical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Sinopec, holds a 50
percent stake in Fujian Refining & Petrochemical and ExxonMobil and Saudi
Aramco hold 25 percent each.
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Analysts said the move would help foster a more competitive oil products
wholesale market where around two thirds of the oil products wholesalers
are run by the nation's two oil giants, namely the China National
Petroleum Corporation and China Petrochemical Corporation, better known
as Sinopec.
Sinopec SenMei (Fujian) Petroleum was also given a license for the oil
products storage business, the MOC said.
The two joint ventures are the first fully integrated refining,
petrochemicals and fuel marketing projects with foreign participation in
China, according to ExxonMobil.
The Fujian Refining and Ethylene joint venture project will expand the
existing refinery capacity from four million tons to twelve million tons
per year. It is expected to start up in early 2009.
Sinopec SenMei will manage and operate 750 gas filling stations and 11
oil tankers in southeastern province of Fujian as of July 1.
The nation issued such licenses to the first batch of eight State-owned
and private companies late last month since it opened the oil products
wholesale market last December in line with its commitments to the World
Trade Organization.
A total of 2,515 companies in China now have oil products wholesale
rights.
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